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July 29, 2010

Canto.js: An Improved Canvas API

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Javascript author extraordinaire David Flanagan released Canto.js recently, a lightweight wrapper API for canvas, introduced here and documented at the top of the source code . Example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:

July 27, 2010

YUI 3.2.0 preview release 1 – touch events support, transitions and browser-specific loading

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Over at the the YUI blog the team just announced the preview release of YUI 3.2.0 . YUI3 now has some interesting new features that the team wants you to try and tell them if they work out for you. The changes to the already very powerful library are quite ambitious:

Press Release: PepsiCo Goes Innovation Hunting With 20 Tech, Media Start-Ups During Two-Day PepsiCo10 Summit

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Here is the official press release from PepsiCo on the PepsiCo10 competition. MotiveCast is listed under the Mobile Marketing category. Gooooo MotiveCast!

MotiveCast Top 20 in PepsiCo10 Competition

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I m pleased to announce that MotiveCast was selected in the top 20 (out of close to 500 other startups) in the PepsiCo10 — the program Pepsi created to partner with the best start-ups in technology, media and communications.

Canvas Color Cycling

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Interest in Canvas, as well as mobile apps, has led to a renaissance of old-school 8-bit graphics. Joe Huckaby of Effect Games has been playing around with color cycling, leading to some stunning effects

July 25, 2010

Looking at JS emulator core for GameBoy

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JavaScript as a general-purpose "Turing-complete language" is illustrated - the example discussed in the first part of a series: How a CPU can be emulated through JS, and how one might start building an emulation core for the GameBoy console. Looking forward: How a game image can be loaded into the emulator over the Web. For now: Hello, Z80!

July 23, 2010

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An affordable alternative to staying in hotels. A marketplace for short-term rentals, appealing to travelers. Post shoutouts so hosts will know where you want to stay, and pick your host based on their reputation score, calculated based on user feedback. URL:

July 22, 2010

Dojo 1.5 is Out and it’s Feature Packed!

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The Dojo project continues to pump out goodness announcing version 1.5 of the Dojo Toolkit with a number of new and exciting features. Dylan Schiemann had this to say about the release: The JavaScript world is evolving at an intense pace. We're very pleased with this release of Dojo, which offers the stability needed for existing apps and browsers, while introducing some of the capabilities of building great apps of the future.

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Direct short-term rental for three groups: home rentals, office rentals and short-term rentals for groups and events. Renters and hosts deal directly with each other, instead of through a third party. URL:

July 21, 2010

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Advanced map planner that can search and map multiple routes, and gives you the best overall results. You can export results to Google or to your GPS device. Available as an app for the iPhone. URL: Route4Me

July 20, 2010

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Google Chrome extension that lets you build a personal music library from the web. It finds and plays the MP3 files on the websites you visit. URL: ExtensionFM

July 19, 2010

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Travel site allowing private residents and commercial properties to rent out their space to travelers. Listings can range from private rooms to castles. URL: AirBnB

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Perk up your Facebook pages with this WYSIWYG visual designer. Just drag and drop widgets from YouTube, Twitter, etc to integrate into your Facebook page. You can use the free ad-supported version or pay a monthly subscription for more assistance. URL:

A Little PIE with that CSS3?

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Everyone's chomping at the bit to leverage new HTML5 and CSS3 features but with some older browsers not supporting them, hacks are still needed to make things work in a cross-browser fashion. We've seen libs that make things easier such as

July 17, 2010

The growing empire of Stack Exchange

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We launched three new Stack Exchange sites this week! Gaming Cooking Pro Webmasters We’ll have three more for you next week, too. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the

July 16, 2010

It’s Friday. Take the time to learn the Web with a splash of French, German, and Irish

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The week has been long. Much code has been written. There is much more to do, but Friday is for relaxing a little. Take some time, sit back and watch, as three fantastic videos are available for you: French: Paul Rouget of Mozilla, shows you the future

This week in Twitter

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Highlights from this week s 37signals staff posts at Twitter . 37signals : Michael Hyatt is giving away 50 copies of REWORK on his blog: http://bit.ly/axK7rX mattlinderman : Martin Wilson s v cool composed

July 15, 2010

Thank You, Coudal.

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After seven years sharing space, today was our last official workday in the Coudal Partners office. We ve had an amazing time working with them, each of us huddled around computers, bringing ideas to life.

[Podcast] Episode #18: Design roundtable (Part 3 of 3)

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Time: 19:14 | 07/15/2010 | Download MP3 Summary In the final part of our design roundtable discussion, Jamie Dihiansan, Jason Fried, and Ryan Singer answer questions from readers at Signal vs. Noise.

“IN USE” sign debate?

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Comment from John on the Office: Details post: I wonder how many design sessions were spent on the wording of the “IN USE ” sign. “At first, we had ‘BUSY’. It was ok but it didn’t feel quite right. What if David is in there slacking off, for example? It’s no ‘busy’. So, I went to use Draft [link] and posted the following on Campfire [link]: ‘OCCUPIED’ It was the right meaning this time, but it sounded shitty, like it was an airport bathroom. In the end, Ryan suggested ‘IN

July 14, 2010

Office: Details

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Five days to go until we begin working in the new office. It won t be completely done for another 10 days or so, but it s workable so we re going to work it. Here are some details of some of the materials in the space.

Synthetic Event Library Syn Aims to Make Testing Easier

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The team at Jupiter IT have release Syn , a library which allows you to create synthetic events for use in testing. This standalone library is meant to assist in testing complex UI behavior by simulating user actions such as typing, clicking, dragging the mouse.

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab

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Below: Q & A with Dan Clifford, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of AnswerLab . This is part of our Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud series which profiles companies that have $1MM+ in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable.

July 13, 2010

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A time mentor created with the busy creative in mind, Kipu combines super-simple time tracking and an innovative social calendar with intuitive reporting, helping you become more productive and efficient at work, rest and play. URL:

[Fly on the Wall] "Your HTML hand"

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Recently in our Campfire room Scott U. has entered the room Scott U. hey, was at lunch Jul 13 2:10 PM Jason F. YOU WILL NEVER EAT LUNCH AGAIN

Styling for change with rules and exceptions

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Here s a quick anti-pattern (an anti-pattern is something you want to avoid) that I occasionally catch in our markup and CSS . I opened some code for a new user management screen we re working on. This excerpt of the users screen shows an avatar, the user

QUOTE: We all know the saying it’s better to ask f

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We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent error and overplan things.

An alternative way to addEventListener

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I can't believe none of us knew DOM2 This is how a tweet from @SubtleGradient , re-tweeted by @jdalton , has been able to steal my rest tonight ... and this post is the consequence ... What's new in a nutshell

Quilt: Stitching Your JavaScript Modules Together

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It floors me what young, talented developers are building these days. Kit Goncharov, who only recently turned 17, just cranked out Quilt, a JavaScript preprocessor written in JavaScript . Quilt is very similar to the

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“We decided that individually-branded sites felt more authentic and trustworthy. We thought that letting every Stack Exchange site have its own domain name, visual identity, logo, and brand would help the community feel more coherent. After all, nobody wants to say that they live in Housing Block 2938TC. They want to live in Colonial Manor. Never mind the connotation of, well, colonies.”

July 12, 2010

PHOTO: Great homage to the corruption of Illinois

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Great homage to the corruption of Illinois politics from our friends at local design firm Thirst . Two different designs of these Blago inspired shirts are available at the thirstore .

Tools for editing REWORK

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Reader Joe Bezdek writes: Hi Matt. I recently listened to the podcast episode about REWORK (I m a bit behind) and I noted that you were the person who initially reviewed all the previously published 37signals material and wrangled it all into an initial outline/draft of the book. I was particularly struck by your comment about how intimidating it was to sit down in front of a blank screen knowing the process that lay before you.

VIDEO: Millions of starlings swarm over Rome.

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Millions of starlings swarm over Rome.

Strobe; A hot new HTML5-touch startup founded by Charles Jolley

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Charles Jolley: "I started working in SproutCore almost 5 years ago because I believe the future of software development lies in native-style apps in the web browser. It is the platform of the future and when that shift change happens, I want to be there with the technology. Now, I believe that time is almost finally upon us. It’s time to double down, and that is why I am leaving Apple."

July 09, 2010

LINK: Managing Conflict

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Managing Conflict Jason s latest Inc. magazine piece is up. Excerpt: So sometimes, when we re battling over a detail in one of our products, someone will eventually cede the decision to someone else: OK, we

This week in Twitter

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Highlights from this week s 37signals staff posts at Twitter . rjs : Reeder on the iPad is growing on me. It s fun to see the feed cards appear and disappear. More fun than a plain list w/ unread counts.

July 08, 2010

PHOTO: We're digging the pretty imagery and big

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We re digging the pretty imagery and big type at the Jax wines site. If you go to the site, click an arrow and a new wine slides in.

We're looking for a new operations manager

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We re sad to say goodbye to our good friend and current operations manager Mark Imbriaco, but we know that he ll continue to kick ass in his new position at Heroku. Mark has been with us for almost four years and seen our infrastructure grow from a handful of servers to I

July 07, 2010

Ben and Dion Step Down as Editors of Ajaxian.com

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In the spring of 2005, the two of us gave our first Ajax talk together. The subject of the talk was DHTML, but Jesse James Garrett had just coined "Ajax" a few days previous, so we sprinkled the term throughout the slide deck. We needed a place to put some source code that accompanied the talk--an RSS reader was called "RSS Bling". Ajaxian.com was born.

Web Applications Stack Exchange now in beta

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Want to know how to export mail from Gmail ? Or delete your Facebook account ? Or send giant files via email ? Well, the new Web Applications Stack Exchange is for you. It’s a part of the Stack Exchange network, so it has the clean, elegant design that made Stack Overflow

QUOTE: The danger in relying on [sophisticated virtual

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The danger in relying on [sophisticated virtual design tools] too much is that we can end up isolated from the physical world. In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves

Mobspot Turns To Your Facebook Friends For App Recommendations

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There s not really any shortage of ways to find out what others think about an app before you shell out the cash, but none are really without their faults. Each major smartphone platform s App Store has a review system built in

Pew: More Americans Access The Internet Than Play Games On Mobile Phones

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The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project is releasing the results of a May survey that evaluates the mobile internet use of Americans. The report found that six in ten American adults now go online wirelessly using either a mobile phone or a laptop with a wireless internet connection, which isn

Zoho Calendar Steps Out Of Beta With Sharing, Subscribing And More

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Zoho s suite of productivity apps is undoubtedly comprehensive, with over 20 different products available to users. Apps include Zoho Mail, CRM, Projects, Planner, Meeting, and more. But a calendering app is an important layer that can sit on top of and unify all these applications.

With A Fresh $16 Million Round, BuyWithMe Plans To Expand To 20 Cities

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A lot of venture money is chasing social commerce startups right now because group buying sites are chasing a lot of money (in the form of consumer spending). Groupon kicked things off with its $135 million mega-round

New jobs on the Job Board and web design firms on Sortfolio

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View all of the jobs and internships at the 37signals Job Board . Design Jobs Boston Globe Media is looking for a Director of Editorial Design in Boston, MA. Airbnb.com is looking for a UI Designer

Solar Impulse, The Solar-Powered Airplane, Tries To Fly 24 Hours

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< img src= http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/solarimpulse1.png / > A solar-powered airplane, named the Solar Impulse, means to prove, once and for all, that harnessing the energy of the Sun is a good and practical idea. I mean, why would we try to capture some of the energy put out by a completely free nuclear reactor hanging in the sky? The plane took off from Switzerland a little bit ago, and will try to fly for 24 hours without stopping. Here

Kids Clothing Swap ThredUP Raises $1.4M From Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective And Others

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ThredUP, an online exchange for children s clothes, has raised $1.4 million led by Trinity Ventures with Founder Collective , High Line Ventures and NextView Ventures participating. This brings the startup

Nokia Turns To Russian Authorities To Get Leaked N8 And Other Property Back

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A couple of months ago, Russian gadget blogger Eldar Murtazin posted a review of a new Nokia phone, the N8 the first to feature the Symbian^3 platform before it was officially announced. This thing happens all the time, but there

Webroot Acquires Hosted Internet Security Services Provider BrightCloud

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Internet security company Webroot today announced it has acquired BrightCloud , a Web content classification and security services provider. Webroot aims to integrate BrightCloud's technology with its own proprietary malware detection and security-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the BrightCloud team will join Webroot's Cloud Engineering team with an expanded focus on hosted security services.

Apple’s Invasion of China Begins With This Shanghai Apple Store

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There has been a lot of talk the last couple of days with Apple s stance on the gigantic Chinese market. The Lenovo s chief and founder stated We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.

Gawker Media Grinds To A Halt – Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Other Blogs Down (Update)

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We ve had our fair share of outages around here, but we re not nearly as big as the Gawker blogging empire is, so it s worth noting that every site in the Gawker Media blog network is currently down and out.

Borders Launches Its Own Kobo-Powered E-Book Store

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Borders has been rather marginalized in the e-book wars thus far, not having the primacy of Amazon nor the sexy Nookiness of B & N. I liked their official e-reader, the Kobo , but until my opinion counts for points in the market, that doesn

Clifford Stoll, Hacker-fighting Astronomer, On This Whole Internet Thing

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Back in the olden days I read a paper book called The Cuckoo s Egg by Clifford Stoll. That book was one of the best I had ever read about computer security. It told the tale of a kind of cool/kind of nerdy astronomer who caught someone rifling his networked computers. After months of investigation he discovered a hacker working for the Russkies who was after our precious bodily fluids and he defeated him by shaking his keys over the network switch. It was, in short, the first hacker sting tale and he was running the whole thing over what amounted to dial-up.

You’re Dead, Unless You Tweet Otherwise

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Short version a false report about renowned Dutch DJ Tiësto dying in a car accident spread via Twitter , was talked about so much that it ended up in trending topics, and was ultimately denied by the man himself via his own Twitter account.

Android Fanboys Grab The Barf Bags, Cupidtino Is Getting Some Action

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Two months ago , we unveiled Cupidtino to the world. Yes, a dating site for Apple fans. At the time, it seemed like a bit of a joke, but the creators were taking it seriously. Apparently, now so are the users.

Soho OS Lands $1M, Opens Business Management Suite To All Small Businesses

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A couple of months ago we first covered Soho OS , describing its offering as a soup-to-nuts hybrid of Quicken + Zoho + SalesForce . Today, the company is announcing that it has secured $1 million in funding from

Fast Company Creatively Combines Link Baiting With A Pyramid Scheme.

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Something tells me that Fast Company s Comscore numbers are going to shoot way up in July. I ve seen some audacious things before, but this is the most ingenious link bait pyramid scheme I ve come across to date:

A Russian Billionaire, Jay-Z, And Gowalla Loom Large Over New York

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For the past week or so, it seems that every sports talk radio program and just about every show on ESPN has been talking about a billboard that just got put up in New York City. Technically, it s a giant mural painted on the site of a building on 34th

Hands-on With the Hitachi Life Studio Mobile Plus

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The Hitachi Life Studio is supposed to be the next generation of portable drives. Aside from the odd addition of a magnetic flash drive to the front of the case, this clever little drive includes media management software from

WakeMate’s Long Delays May Finally Be Coming To An End

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WakeMate s quest to help you kiss your groggy mornings goodbye continues. The Y Combinator -funded startup has become something of a poster child for the mantra Hardware is hard — when the company debuted

AdSafe Media Raises $7.25 Million For Brand Verification Platform

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AdSafe Media , a brand verification platform, has raised $7.25 Million in Series B funding, led by Atlas Venture with participation from existing investors Founder Collective and others participating. Launched in May 2009, AdSafe Media uses algorithmic modeling and human verification to rate and verify the brand safety of content on commercially supported Web pages via a proprietary system. The rating then allow advertisers to properly place display advertising campaigns of sites.

Jeff Ma’s Keys To Success In Business: Blackjack And Sports

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In terms of interesting backgrounds among people in the tech space, Jeff Ma has one of the most interesting. If you ve read the book Bringing Down The House or seen the movie 21 , the main character is based on Ma

July 06, 2010

Best Buy Issues Reprieve For Employee Behind Videos — But He Declines Reinstatement

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Last week, we noted that Best Buy was looking into firing the employee that made the hilarious EVO versus iPhone 4 video (and the rebuttal video ). The employee, 25-year-old Brian Maupin, was placed on suspension as Best Buy decided what they wanted to do. Today brings some good news: they

Twitter Explains What @EarlyBird Is: It’s All About Distributing Advertiser Deals

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ReadWriteWeb had a solid scoop last week when it uncovered Twitter was set to go live with an account called @EarlyBird . Well, it has just gone live, with a tweet pointing to this page where the company explains what it

Help Key: Replacing the Apple TV

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I d been living under Apple TV hegemony for about two years I bought an early 40GB model, upgraded it to 80GB, and then hacked it. When hacked, the Apple TV is actually useful. Hacked it was, in short, one of the easiest ways to get video on my NAS or networked Macs to my TV. Unhacked it

Amazon’s Original Kindle Patent Could Spell Trouble For Competitors

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A patent applied for by Amazon in 2006 has been made public today as a consequence of its being granted, and its language is rather more wide-ranging (and forward-thinking) than we might have expected. Depending on the interpretation, Amazon

Basecamp home page redesign

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A few weeks ago we decided to take a stab at redesigning the Basecamp home page. We liked the current design, but we wanted to see if we could do better. Specifically we were interested in more visuals, less text, and a generally simpler and less dense presentation.

Design Decisions: Refining alert text

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Note: This post contains screenshots of Safari alerts. So please don t get alarmed unnecessarily. The problem: In Highrise , explaining uncategorization (what happens when you delete a task category) is difficult

July 05, 2010

VIDEO: "I've already got the prize. The prize is

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I ve already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out! -Richard Feynman from the The Pleasure of Finding Things Out video (1981).

July 02, 2010

This week in Twitter

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Highlights from this week s 37signals staff posts at Twitter . @mattlinderman : Proportional leading with CSS3 . The wider the measure (line length) becomes, the more open the leading (line-height). http://bit.ly/aqfFJm

text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; //Can you read me now?

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text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; . Awesome.

July 01, 2010

PHOTO: We're all to blame.

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We re all to blame.

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport

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Below: Q & A with Vishal Kapur of iTeleport . This is part of our Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud series which profiles companies that have $1MM+ in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable.

Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG

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Mozilla went to London, England yesterday night to give a workshop about Mozilla Add-Ons and show some of the cool new stuff coming in Firefox 4. Probably the most impressive thing (next to the new Add-Ons Builder based on Bespin) was the upcoming Features of Firefox 4:

Keep your vows; Keeping wed to Node

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Vows can be a beautiful thing. Alexis Sellier of LESS fame, is becoming an open source star. This time around he brings us Vows an asynchronous-friendly behavior driven development framework for Node.js.

June 30, 2010

QUOTE: Because posting this help-wanted ad will

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Because posting this help-wanted ad will bombard you with dozens of offers that sound legitimate but have never read your ad, you should really do this step: At the end of your post, write something like, “VERY

The death of the pixel as we know it; The new DPI web

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The Web used to be so simple. Browser request goes to server, where you do some work, and return some HTML. Then we got Ajax and finally web apps could have some semblance of UI responsiveness. Now we have richer HTML5 technologies to change expectations of our users once again.

jQuery.fn.webkitTransform: bananas on the skew-whiff

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Franz Enzenhofer has created a nice new webkitTransform plugin that helps you manage transforms and state. Franz tells us more: With jQuery.css you can't easily change the webkitTransform CSS because webkitTransform is not your average CSS.

HTML5 Video; YouTube Perspective

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The YouTube API blog put their point of view on HTML5 video on the table. I would love to know why they felt like this was the right time, and what their angle is. I find myself often confused with the Google strategy. On one hand they are doing amazing things for the Open Web (Chrome, tools, Steve Souders and Web performance work), but on the other we see an alignment with Adobe and Flash (a differentiator to Apple).

IE9 gets a Web Timing API to measure performance

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Web site performance is a very important topic. We should not let our end users wait for our sites and optimizing them for load time and rendering can save us thousands of dollars in traffic. There is a lot of great content out there on performance (spearheaded by

June 29, 2010

ChromeKit: Some folk love putting windows in browsers

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The awesome Guillermo Rauch and Nathan White have taken one of the Web code katas and played with it. Before the Web we had [wW]indows. Maybe that is why developers are keen to implement windows within the Web page, mainly to see if it can be done. We had the great

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An easy way to add notes to any web page and share it with friends or colleagues. URL: Bounce

June 28, 2010

Don Norman at the Business of Software 2009

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Neil has posted a video of Don Norman (most famous for his book The Design of Everyday Things ) speaking at the Business of Software conference last year in San Francisco. “Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Your remote control has two buttons. They are unmarked, but one button points up and one button points down.

June 22, 2010

Area 51 is now in beta

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Area 51 is now in beta . This is the promised place where the community comes together to invent new Stack Exchange sites. Benofsky from Hacker News writes : Seems overly complicated, I have no idea what's going on when I visit Area 51, I guess this is their strategy for turning away uncommitted users.

June 19, 2010

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A product born out of frustration and archaic methods of conducting pre-launch testing. This web app is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large. URL:

June 16, 2010

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IWorkedOn is a bold and ambitious effort aimed at compiling the most comprehensive database of projects and the people who contributed to them worldwide. Functioning as a social and professional network of users who document their own individual portfolios of projects on which they have worked over time. URL:

June 09, 2010

My secret weapon for setting executive compensation

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My friend Noam at Harvard Business School does annual surveys of executive compensation in tech companies. The surveys are a great way to figure out how much to pay that VP of Sales you were thinking of hiring, or whether your equity grant as CTO is fair.

June 08, 2010

Paul Kenny’s talk at the Business of Software 2009

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Paul Kenny is a regular speaker at the Business of Software. He’s an expert on sales, especially high tech sales, and both Red Gate and Fog Creek hire him all the time to train our sales teams and build our sales organization.

May 21, 2010

MotiveCast @ Google I/O

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May 06, 2010

Reality combines with Augmented Reality

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April 07, 2010

Where 2.0 2010: Walter Scott, “Seconds to Anywhere”

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March 22, 2010

“Failure Is an Option”

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Below is an interesting Ted talk by James Cameron James Cameron s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic

February 21, 2010

Do Wine Blogs Matter?

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February 20, 2010

Switching To WordPress

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& lt;p & gt; & lt;img src="http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/WellesleyGarden3623construction.gif" style="float: left;margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" / & gt;Just letting you all know that I'm finally moving my blog from Blogger (I know!) to WordPress. So the site may look funky off and on. Bear with me, please. Having programmer-friendly blogging software will be great (and, besides, Blogger is removing support for FTP publishing, which is how I push content to my servers.)

February 09, 2010

BREAKING: Google Goes Social with Google Buzz

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It s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature . On stage revealing the new product was Bradley Horowitz, Google

Facebook Kills Lexicon, Focuses on Analytics for Page Admins

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Facebook has removed its Lexicon analytics app , blogger Steve Rubel noticed last night. Don t know what Lexicon was? That s OK, a lot of people didn t; it was announced very quietly, but it was a neat tool. You could use Lexicon to see how frequently, and when, certain terms were trending in status updates, just like you can use

7 Ways to Promote Your Offline Event Using Social Media

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Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations , an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog , and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool . Follow her on Twitter

WordPress To Posterous Users: Graduate to a Full Blog

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In an effort to remind you that WordPress can be just as flexible and e-mail-friendly as Posterous , the company has released a Posterous importer for users who want to graduate from the mini-blogging site to

Bonnaroo Lineup Announced on MySpace

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Legendary music festival Bonnaroo is announcing the lineup for its 2010 festival today, and instead of doing so in one fell swoop, the fest is releasing info via its MySpace page all day long. If you head on over to

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